My auction purchases now basically all fall into the categories of 1) old port; 2) old (usually vintage) bubbles; 3) sauternes.
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My auction purchases now basically all fall into the categories of 1) old port; 2) old (usually vintage) bubbles; 3) sauternes.
Really fun tasting today
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Let me know when you're in Summit County
Making a nice dinner and waiting for UPS with the wine shipment from Tobin James. Love me some jammy Zins
Tobin James is a fun winery to visit
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I've had quite a few bottles of bottles James Gang reserves and every freaking one works
Their Summer parties are a blastQuote:
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Classy!
Penis Noir?
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I don't reach for a lot of domestic Cabernet but this was an appealing set of wines to taste thru this afternoon
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Just ordered 6 bottles of Vosne Romanee Villages, 2020 from De Negoce. 58 a bottle. Not DRC, but should be pretty good
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Damn….bet that put a dent in the pocketbookQuote:
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Me too, couldn’t pass that up.Quote:
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Any of you wine nerds ski Summit County? It'd be fun to get together and have an excuse to open some bottles.
So anyone else spending a few hundred a month on wine or am I the only drunk in here.
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Screw you for making me think about how much I spend on wine each month. It’s not exactly all high falutin stuff but [emoji638][emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji640][emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]]]-[emoji6[emoji640][emoji637]][emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji640][emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]]] dollar bottles at at least a couple a week plus the nice stuff you bring to friends houses and the one weekend a month your friends go through [emoji6[emoji640][emoji637]] of your bottles and it adds up.Quote:
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I go to the BCLDB to fill a case with Stoneleigh from NZ < 20 $ a bottle and go back when its empty
WTSO knows exactly what I like at this point and bombards me with suggestions on a daily basis. I like to drink, so a couple to three hundred a month is easy to spend.
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I had the pleasure of doing a side by side comparison of the 2015 and 2020 vintages of Chateau Montrose last week. I'd post a pic of the flight, which included the '19 vintage of their second wine and a couple vintages of their sister estate, Tronquoy, but the pics are still broke. I didn't realize it at the time because I failed to review the tech sheets beforehand but the '20 got a modest 100 points from Parker. They were quite nice but '15 was more pleasantly evolved. The star of the show was the 2019 Blanc de Tronquoy which was unique in that it was composed entirely of semillon and sauvignon Gris (no sav blanc) and barrel fermented.
Never really trusted Parker ......Who do you trust for wine reviews/evals ?
Myself. But I've evaluated somewhere in the neighborhood of 65,000 different bottles and purchased over $40m worth of wine. That said, each of the major publications, like each of us, has their own biases and learning to understand which set of biases tend to align better with our own yields more consistently satisfying suggestions.
I was going to say something like this. You know better, but I think Parker loves, or tends to score higher, big, (higher alcohol), dark, reds.Quote:
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All reviewer/critics have preferences, which is to be expected, so just take that into account, no matter what’s being reviewed.
It's worth mentioning that Robert Parker himself has no real professional association with the publication or website that bears his name. He sold his interest years ago.
Like Parker, I tend to prefer wines that are showy. They're easier to describe and easier to sell as a result. My wine reviews (I've written well over 10,000 of them) are short persuasive essays designed to illicit a covetous response from the reader. But they're sincere and they convey meaningful info that consumers can use to find wines that sound appealing to their own personal tastes.
At the end of the day, most of us have a fairly narrow range of wines that we would likely find satisfying. The key is learning what that range is and being able to describe it to others so that they can help us find the ones that tick our boxes. One thing any som loves is a customer who can articulate what they like.